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I was at the Quicksilver Games Casino a few days ago, I’d been out on a much needed shopping trip with the girlies and with £5 left in my pcocket it was a toss up between the casino or the pub – we decided on Quicksilver and I am glad we did because I came out with £30, enough to cover what I just spent on a new summer dress and pair of sandals. My friends weren’t quite as happy we chose the casino over the pub though because they came out with nothing, hehe.

My Dad, my Brother and my Husband to be all renew their life insurance at the same time, in June. I have no idea why that is, maybe it’s a guy thing — like when women all get their time of the month at the same time if they spend a lot of time together? hmm, hehe.

For some reason I always get roped into finding life insurance quotes for them, because I am seen as the Internet expert slash Bargain Queen. It’s a bit of a pain but I don’t mind doing it really, I like to feel needed

I didn’t enjoy the Masterclass episodes. There I said it.

I know we’ve all been asking if we could learn more from the show for years and I think the idea was good – I just found the episodes really boring and basic and I felt that I was being ripped off by one show a week. I gave it 4 or 5 weeks but did eventually stop tuning in for it.

I think if it does come back they should just have a 5 minute ‘health tip’ at the end of each episodes rather than a full on 1 hour or longer show once per week.

Well one thing is for sure, there’s no way this years The Biggest Loser Australia contestants had the time to hit the weight loss pills between leaving campus and finale as has been rumoured in previous years. Word is there was only 2 weeks between them going home and the finale being filmed – no wonder most of them looked exactly the same as the last time we saw them!

I’ve been trying to add lots of them on Facebook but moreso than in any other year this lot aren’t really playing ball – a lot aren’t accepting friend requests from randoms and several are putting us on a limited view list. Boo.

Of course this is their right – but stalking them after the show is over is therapeutic. My favourite hamster this year, Pheobe, isn’t accepting friend requests, my second favourite Shannon has accepted me but I can only see his basic info and either my third favourite Lisa isn’t on there or she’s so well hidden from us randoms it just looks like she isn’t.

Boo..

I am getting my fiance to take me clothes shopping tomorrow, in the guise of shopping for men’s clothing – he mentioned wanting some new tees a few days ago so I said I would take him shopping and treat him to some, but of course I plan to spend as long if not longer shopping for myself – I am a woman after all

I wonder what the best diet supplements out there at the moment are? Watching the finale of The Biggest Loser Australia yesterday has really made me want to kick my own weight loss into gear and get the scale moving again – I got down to about 15lbs away from my goal weight and then stopped losing for a few months so I got lazy and gave up trying. I have not gained any weight back, but it’d be good to finally shift that last little bit.

Australia officially has it’s first female biggest loser – I never would have picked Lisa as the winner back at the start of the season, in fact I seem to remember thinking that she’d likely be an early boot. But she did it, she beat off the 3 boys with her in the final to take the crown – and she absolutely deserved it.

Great lady

I really enjoyed the finale this year even though I didn’t enjoy the series as a whole nearly as much as normal. It was nice to see some old faces trotting out to show us how well they are all doing – but I am ‘friends’ with a lot of these guys on Facebook and let me tell you the selections were very, well selective. A lot have gained weight back – more than they had to start with in several cases!

I was also shocked that three of the contestants had actually gained weight since leaving Camp Biggest Loser and finale night – doesn’t bode well does it?

So we just had to make a difficult decision and that is that we won’t be going on our usual vacation package deals this year. We’ve been taking up killer last minute all inclusive deals for around five years now. Usually we go away at the start of the summer and the end of it.

This year however we’ve decided we really need to save all our money as we are setting up home together in August and it’s going to cost a small fortune. What with the rent, deposit and agent fees – not to mention that we will have to basically buy every thing you need for a new house as we currently have nothing other than a bed!

Of course it’s disappointing as who doesn’t love a good vacation? But I am working on the theory that it will make it all the better when we do get to go on our usual all inclusive holidays in 2011. Sometimes taking a break from something reignites that excitement for it

I remember the first time we went together, we had only been together a few months at that point but this deal came up and we just couldn’t say no – a week in the Canaries for less than £100 each, we’d have been mad not to! My parents don’t understand how we can do it like we do, not knowing when we are going and often leaving ourselves with literally a few days to pack and get ready but for us that just adds to the experience. It also means that I don’t have the time to spend hours researching where we are going as I tend to do, so when we get there everything (good or bad) is a surprise to us.

Roll on 2011!

I was just looking at Branson vacation packages for a friend, I wish it were for me but alas not. We can’t actually afford to go away at all this year due to moving house but that’s OK, it will make it all the more special when we do finally get to go away the following year – we’re also going to make sure it’s extra special and spend a little more than we usually do, it’s normally all about budget budget budget.